Only a truly converged platform offers the automation, management, orchestration, and interoperability advantages that today’s -- and tomorrow’s -- hybrid networks require.

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Security developers have been combining solutions into a single device for some time. The claim is that bundling solutions makes security easier to deploy and manage. Today, the latest trend is a “converged platform,” a new technology buzzword being adopted by vendors that claims to be combining networking with security. Such claims can be very enticing.

True convergence is powerful. A converged platform enables network modernization by extending security to every part of the network and seamlessly adapting to the shifting network. A converged platform also reduces overhead by eliminating dozens of separate management consoles. Rather than purchasing new networking technologies in a silo, a security-first approach that integrates security with the network expands visibility, allows policy and configurations to be orchestrated centrally, and enables issues to be detected and resolved in real-time.

Ownership Is Not Convergence

These clear advantages are why so many vendors today are promoting their point solutions as a converged platform. But the truth of these purely marketing-driven claims is that most “converged” platforms only focus on a niche use case and fail to address the entire network, which can span campus, distributed data centers, private and multi-cloud environments, as...

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